A lovely box arrived Thursday. My car has been out of commission for a bit over a month (broke down shortly after I received stitches), so I decided I would open the box after I got around to fixing the car. Tonight I determined the head has to come off the car, so some cheering up is in order and the box was opened "early." There is only one thing better than an X-plane... a pair of X-planes .

As before, the quality of craftsmanship is near perfection. The current plan is:

Yellow/Green:
KPG 5.2
GM 15x16
HET 1w-30 (28x52mm 4400kv)
4s ~2500mah
Phoenix 125
Based on some other planes I have I'm guessing this will be around 3kw and 130mph, pretty mild, but certainly provides room to prop up.

Red:
KPG 4.2
HET 2w-30 (28x52mm 2200kv)
Small 8s pack (~1300-1800mah depending on how many amps the motor combo pulls)
Ice lite 100
prop ??? I'd like something around 13x17. Rasa makes a 15x18 but the design looks a bit "fat" and I haven't read sparkly reviews yet. Marcus makes an 11x17, but I'm not sure this would give the acceleration I would like.

Unfortunately, now it looks like I will have plenty of time to research props as my cars head gasket isn't going to be a quick fix...

A lovely box arrived Thursday. My car has been out of commission for a bit over a month (broke down shortly after I received stitches), so I decided I would open the box after I got around to fixing the car. Tonight I determined the head has to come off the car, so some cheering up is in order and the box was opened "early." There is only one thing better than an X-plane... a pair of X-planes .

As before, the quality of craftsmanship is near perfection. The current plan is:

Yellow/Green:
KPG 5.2
GM 15x16
HET 1w-30 (28x52mm 4400kv)
4s ~2500mah
Phoenix 125
Based on some other planes I have I'm guessing this will be around 3kw and 130mph, pretty mild, but certainly provides room to prop up.

Red:
KPG 4.2
HET 2w-30 (28x52mm 2200kv)
Small 8s pack (~1300-1800mah depending on how many amps the motor combo pulls)
Ice lite 100
prop ??? I'd like something around 13x17. Rasa makes a 15x18 but the design looks a bit "fat" and I haven't read sparkly reviews yet. Marcus makes an 11x17, but I'm not sure this would give the acceleration I would like.

Unfortunately, now it looks like I will have plenty of time to research props as my cars head gasket isn't going to be a quick fix...

Somewhere it was discussed that the ice and ice lite use the same programming/board and the limit was due to the lack of heat sink. I've used the ice lite 100a at around 55a peak on a Chinese 2150kv inrunner through 5.2:1 gb with the rfm 12.8x13 on a 1000mah 8s pack. As far as I can tell, efficiency was high and everything came down pretty cold (no cooling holes in the fuselage). That plane only lived two flights (my first incident since I started flying again a few years ago), so can't comment much more than that.

I don't have any fear pushing the ice lite 100 to 100a on 8s in 5sec bursts or 125a+ on ~2-3s bursts, but I have not tried it yet. 8s will require external bec or rx pack (I always use an RX pack).

I don't have any fear pushing the ice lite 100 to 100a on 8s in 5sec bursts or

With 16x17 put ( accidentally) on +7 spinner I was using throttle switch
for 0.3 sec bursts.If I would be holding switch longer,I would not be able to see the plane.
Thanx for the great pictures Dan.
Yuri.
P.S. CC 100 not LITE I pushed to 239Amps on 8S.
And going to do same thing with LITE ,at least for a half of that with cooling of course.